Lexicographical Neighbors of Stodging
Literary usage of Stodging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"Though JACK stuck to his tackle like wax, BELL and me was soon stodging like
winkles ; that gal did make play with the snacks. " Strike. ..."
2. Life and Letters of Thomas Hodgkin by Thomas Hodgkin (1918)
"I am stodging through the Codex Theodosianus, a work which requires all my
perseverance, though I am often rewarded by a bright glimpse of life and manners ..."
3. The Cruise of the 'Antarctic' to the South Polar Regions by Henrik Johan Bull (1896)
"As if it was not enough to have discovered a flesh-eating ' ptarmigan,' our mate
now fell in with numbers of 'gray geese,' which were stodging themselves ..."
4. That which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan (1918)
"Crying my eyes out one minute and stodging pigeon-pie the next! Do the rest of
the friends you feed here behave as badly as that? ..."
5. The Pillar of Fire: A Profane Baccalaureate by Seymour Deming (1915)
"In a time when the whole conception of leadership has been democratized, the
colleges are stodging along "training leaders" in the placid supposition that ..."
6. Two Winters in Norway: Being an Account of Two Holidays Spent on Snow-shoes by Arthur Edmund Spender (1902)
"Ten minutes later we were sitting at table, and stodging ourselves in the usual
British way. There is nothing to complain of in a Norwegian dinner if the ..."
7. British Farmer's Magazine (1847)
"... if it happened to be a wet season, so much harm was done by " stodging" the
land, that the effects were observable for the next year or two. ..."
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